General Books


Uncommon CarriersUncommon Carriers
Best Price: $6.18
I was a little reluctant at first to start this book, thinking to myself "how interesting...
Frida by Frida, 2nd Expanded EditionFrida by Frida, 2nd Expanded Edition
Best Price: $15.68
This is a must-have book for all Frida fans. I only wish that the letters of the people she was...
Writing in RestaurantsWriting in Restaurants
Best Price: $1.94
Pull up a chair at your favorite sidewalk cafe's, order a latte or a spicy red Zin, and let our...
Off Main Street: Barnstormers, Prophets & Gatemouth's Gator: EssaysOff Main Street: Barnstormers, Prophets & Gatemouth's Gator: Essays
Best Price: $2.89
This collection of essays is a bit more eclectic than Population 485 but it showcases Perry's...
Shakespeare Wrote for MoneyShakespeare Wrote for Money
Best Price: $11.20
With an affectionate introduction by Sarah Vowell, this is the third and final collection of...


The Colossus of New YorkThe Colossus of New York
Best Price: $6.76
This little sort of tone poem captures some of the beauty and some of the meanness of New York...
All for the Union: The Civil War Diary & Letters of Elisha Hunt RhodesAll for the Union: The Civil War Diary & Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes
Best Price: $6.91
Just finished reading "All for the Union", and it's well worth the effort. A quicker,...
Maxims (Penguin Classics)Maxims (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $7.98
La Rochefoucauld isn't for everyone. Let's excuse those who are going to be offended right...
Snobbery: The American VersionSnobbery: The American Version
Best Price: $1.80
I didn't find the information particularly enlightening. I had the feeling that the author was...
Chile: A Traveler's Literary CompanionChile: A Traveler's Literary Companion
Best Price: $8.90
Since it is short stories you can have it in the car or whatever and pick it up at odd moments. ...


A Little Literature: Reading, Writing, ArgumentA Little Literature: Reading, Writing, Argument
Best Price: $37.94
Featuring the smallest trim size and page count of any comparable anthology, this appealing new...
Home and ExileHome and Exile
Best Price: $6.16
Since the book is already well-summarized above, I'll just give my own reaction. I've read a...
Best Music Writing 2008 (Da Capo Best Music Writing)Best Music Writing 2008 (Da Capo Best Music Writing)
Best Price: $10.85
The ninth entry in the acclaimed series celebrating the best writing on every style of music,...
Preaching the New Lectionary: Year CPreaching the New Lectionary: Year C
Best Price: $18.70
The Lectionary is made up of selected passages from the Bible, placed within a literary and...
Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the LeftContingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left
Best Price: $13.00
Very strange book--courageous, but disappointing in many ways. Butler tries throughout to get...

Essays from Contemporary CultureEssays from Contemporary Culture
Best Price: $51.71
Praised for its collection of essays on contemporary issues, the fifth edition offers more...
Proposals That Work: A Guide for Planning Dissertations and Grant Proposals (Proposals That Work: A Guide for Planning)Proposals That Work: A Guide for Planning Dissertations and Grant Proposals (Proposals That Work: A Guide for Planning)
Best Price: $10.00
This book is very general and I guess is good if you have never written any sort of scientific...
Wedding Readings: Centuries of Writing and Rituals on Love and MarriageWedding Readings: Centuries of Writing and Rituals on Love and Marriage
Best Price: $2.99
I've lost track of the number of weddings that I've conducted or assisted using this book. My...
Living by the WordLiving by the Word
Best Price: $2.48
How could I not give it 5 stars?? All the emotion that is evoked coming from her soul &...
Pilgrim in the Land of Alligators: More Stories about Real Florida (Florida History and Culture)Pilgrim in the Land of Alligators: More Stories about Real Florida (Florida History and Culture)
Best Price: $15.60
This humble story teller of real people & real events make sense of Florida. Reminds me of...

Preaching Better: Practical Suggestions for HomilistsPreaching Better: Practical Suggestions for Homilists
Best Price: $6.23
This book is a quick and easy read, filled with countless useful suggestions and tips. I would...
My Unwritten BooksMy Unwritten Books
Best Price: $13.92
George Steiner's "My unwritten books" in the swan song of a master writer and thinker,...
Bad Girls: 26 Writers MisbehaveBad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave
Best Price: $6.25
Perhaps the notion of a book on "bad girl" behavior may bring to mind a version of...
Something to DeclareSomething to Declare
Best Price: $4.86
I had to read this book over the summer before I went back to school. Let me just say that this...
On Tremendous Trifles (On)On Tremendous Trifles (On)
Best Price: $11.16
In a popular series of articles first published in 1909, G. K. Chesterton sought to celebrate...

Real Ponies Don't Go Oink!Real Ponies Don't Go Oink!
Best Price: $2.00
This is another great book from Pat McManus, he was the only reason I used to read Outdoor Life....
Edmund Spenser's Poetry (Norton Critical Editions)Edmund Spenser's Poetry (Norton Critical Editions)
Best Price: $15.65
This edition is all right - reasonable level of annotation (most students would benefit from...
Obit: Inspiring Stories of Ordinary People Who Led Extraordinary LivesObit: Inspiring Stories of Ordinary People Who Led Extraordinary Lives
Best Price: $5.16
There is a quiet dignity in the lives of everyday people. Look at the obituary pages and there...
The Bottom of the HarborThe Bottom of the Harbor
Best Price: $13.05
Joseph Mitchell--The New Yorker fact writer, whose birth, in North Carolina, 100 years ago is...
Styles of Radical WillStyles of Radical Will
Best Price: $7.25
One of Sontag's earlier collections of aesthetic essays, including insightful reflections on the...

Nuevos Mundos: Lectura, cultura y comunicaci?n / Curso de espa?ol para biling?es (Nuevos Mundos/New World (Spanish))Nuevos Mundos: Lectura, cultura y comunicaci?n / Curso de espa?ol para biling?es (Nuevos Mundos/New World (Spanish))
Best Price: $43.52
I read this book for a class I took in college, and am recommending that our department purchase...
Standing by Words: EssaysStanding by Words: Essays
Best Price: $8.46
In these six essays, award-winning author Wendell Berry considers the degeneration of language...
Damn The Statistics, I Have a Life to Live!: Coping with a Brain Tumor My Personal StoryDamn The Statistics, I Have a Life to Live!: Coping with a Brain Tumor My Personal Story
Best Price: $6.98
This guy has quite a story to tell. It's nice to read a journal of an another brain tumor...
The Best American Magazine Writing 2008 (Best American Magazine Writing)The Best American Magazine Writing 2008 (Best American Magazine Writing)
Best Price: $11.53
The Best American Magazine Writing 2008 is an essential guide to the year's most entertaining,...
THE HEART OF BLACK PREACHINGTHE HEART OF BLACK PREACHING
Best Price: $17.90
This book is very helpful for a few reasons. 1) It gives the authors understanding of the...

The Light in the Piazza and Other Italian Tales (Banner Books)The Light in the Piazza and Other Italian Tales (Banner Books)
Best Price: $5.00
I purchased this book because the Broadway production of the title story had proved so...
Nature and Walking (The Concord Library)Nature and Walking (The Concord Library)
Best Price: $3.91
I've come to assign it in courses but read it in your own. The essays are beyond compare, the...
The City Reader: 2nd EditionThe City Reader: 2nd Edition
Best Price: $47.95
This book is a very interesting collection of essays from prominent intellectuals who have shown...
An Apology for Raymond Sebond (Penguin Classics)An Apology for Raymond Sebond (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $7.00
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) was never famous for staying on topic. The titles of his...
Writing in the Dark: Essays on Literature and PoliticsWriting in the Dark: Essays on Literature and Politics
Best Price: $8.99
Recent essays on Israel, literature, and language from one of the country's most respected and...

On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the GrainOn Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain
Best Price: $8.16
Edward Said's writings never aim to make the obvious observation but instead seek to discover...
Wampeters, Foma & GranfalloonsWampeters, Foma & Granfalloons
Best Price: $7.68
Hilarious, frightening, saddening, moving. I love this book and open it often, just to dip in...
A Reasonable Life: Toward a Simpler, Secure, More Humane ExistenceA Reasonable Life: Toward a Simpler, Secure, More Humane Existence
Best Price: $5.95
Ferenc Mate is a romantic. He offers, without proof or reason, a romantic view of a past which...
The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in IraqThe Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq
Best Price: $3.98
Fascinating read about Stewarts's stint as an "assistant provincial governor" of sorts...
Walden and Resistance to Civil Government (Norton Critical Editions)Walden and Resistance to Civil Government (Norton Critical Editions)
Best Price: $5.98
Mind you, this isn't idle worship - this book is a masterpiece of American Literature, and along...

What on Earth Have I Done?: Stories, Observations, and AffirmationsWhat on Earth Have I Done?: Stories, Observations, and Affirmations
Best Price: $10.36
Another great book from Robert Fulghum - I actually laughed out loud during some of his stories....
The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson)The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Best Price: $19.45
Emerson's works require repetitous reading and re-reading. Anyone that says you can "get...
The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan (Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature)The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan (Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature)
Best Price: $6.84
The author was far away in time, place, and culture from where I am now. Her self-induced misery...
The Jane Addams ReaderThe Jane Addams Reader
Best Price: $10.95
Jane Addams was a prolific and elegant writer. Her twelve books consist largely of published...
Annapolis Autumn: Life, Death, and Literature at the U.S. Naval AcademyAnnapolis Autumn: Life, Death, and Literature at the U.S. Naval Academy
Best Price: $14.75
This is just a terrible book. Poorly written, and filled with mush. No wonder the USNA is...

But Some Of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's StudiesBut Some Of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies
Best Price: $14.00
This compliation of essays lays down the curricular and research agenda for the establishment of...
The Collected ProseThe Collected Prose
Best Price: $6.94
I hope that I will be forgiven for saying that as much as I enjoyed this volume of Bishop's...
Maybe (Maybe Not) (Maybe Not : Second Thoughts from a Secret Life)Maybe (Maybe Not) (Maybe Not : Second Thoughts from a Secret Life)
Best Price: $1.20
Perhaps there is a purpose to this book that I was not made aware of, or maybe some of Fulghum's...
I Was Told There'd Be CakeI Was Told There'd Be Cake
Best Price: $13.98
i didn't relate to much of what she wrote about. yet, it still had a few entertaining parts to...
Uh-OhUh-Oh
Best Price: $0.01
Robert Fulghum finds delight in the daily details of life. He paints a wonderful picture from a...

Search for the Real and Other EssaysSearch for the Real and Other Essays
Best Price: $11.45
Hans Hofmann's biography is very colorful. And his essay "Search for the Real" was a...
Hopes and Impediments: Selected EssaysHopes and Impediments: Selected Essays
Best Price: $7.32
I read this as part of my required summer reading for my AP English class, and I have only...
   
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